tailwater · trout · whitefish
Yakima River (Umtanum)
Live conditions for Yakima River (Umtanum): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
842cfs→ lowcaution
Low and skinny at 842 cfs — wadeable, fish the deeper holding water · +1.2% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage30.86 ft
Engine callOFF 842 cfs outside wade band 1000–2000
The water
Yakima River (Umtanum) is a tailwater below Keechelus, Kachess, Cle Elum (multi-reservoir system) in Washington, fished for trout, whitefish — rainbow, cutthroat. On dam-controlled water the generation schedule is the whole story: the wade window is the no-generation block, and rising water at the gauge means the pulse is arriving.
troutwhitefishrainbow troutcutthroat trout
Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Ringer Loop Road Boat Launchramp
- Ringer Park Bank Accesswalk in
- Bighorn Recreation Site Boat Launchramp
- Umtanum Recreation Site Boat Launch & Footbridgeramp
- Lmuma Creek Recreation Siteramp
- Mile Post 10 Boat Launchramp
- Big Pines Recreation Siteramp
- Mile Post 8 Boat Launchramp
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.